Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre – Norwegian Refugee Council The 2017 Global Report on Internal Displacement presents the latest data and trends of internal displacement by conflict and disasters worldwide, and includes spotlights on countries, regions and issues of particular concern. . Learn More
Lessons from Indigenous Women & Farmers: Cultivate Democracy & Food Sovereignty
Jennifer Allsopp - 15 May 2017 Learning to live in harmony with the land is co-constituent to human rights activism. Jennifer Allsopp reports for 50.50 from the second day of the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference. . Learn More
Women’s History – Importance for Activism & Shaping Our Feminine Future – Dr. Gerda Lerner – Film
The film Why Women Need to Climb Mountains – A Journey of Discovery with Dr. Gerda Lerner asks the question: how does knowing our history affect our potential to shape the future? This documentary explores the courageous life, work, and vision of Dr. Gerda Lerner and looks at the creative and collective spirit of women activists who spearheaded the . Learn More
Mexico – Sex Trafficking & Child Marriages Linked – Study
Wedding Dresses Exhibit in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico The researchers interviewed 603 women working in the sex industry in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. . Learn More
Syrian Women Experts Panel CSW 61 – Ensuring Women’s Participation in Future Political & Economic Decision-Making in Syria Now
Outcomes of the CSW 61 Syrian Women Experts Panel: “Ensuring Women’s Participation in Future Political and Economic Decision-Making in Syria Now” March 2017, UN NYC . Learn More
Syria Woman Aged Over 100 Years En Route as a Refugee to Join Her Family in Europe
Eida, who is over 100, was the last remaining member of her family in Syria – Photo: UNHCR/Yorgos Kvvemitis Aged over 100, Syrian great-grandmother Eida Karmi planned to live out her days in her home village in NE Syria. She doubted she would ever see her family again after they fled the war and settled in Germany. Now in Greece, she is . Learn More
Somalia – Conflict & Famine – Gender
Overview History is at risk of tragically repeating itself. Once again, conflict-wracked Somalia is faced with mass hunger, just six years after a man-made famine took the lives of 250,000 people, mostly children, and 25 years after another killed 300,000, triggering . Learn More
ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women & Children
JAKARTA, 20 January 2017 – It has been a positive start for ASEAN’s efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2017, marked by the ratification of the regional convention against trafficking in persons by two more ASEAN Member States. Viet Nam and Myanmar deposited their Instruments of Ratification of the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in . Learn More
After the Economic Crisis, Low Birthrates Challenge Southern Europe
Maria Karaklioumi, 43, with her niece, Georgia, in her Athens apartment. Ms. Karaklioumi decided to forgo children after concluding she would not be able to offer them the stable future her parents had afforded her.CreditEirini Vourloumis for The New York Times By LIZ ALDERMAN - APRIL 16, 2017, NY Times ATHENS — As a . Learn More
PALESTINE – HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A WOMAN PRIMARILY LIVING IN THE DARK, IN GAZA?
By Yolande Knell - BBC News, Gaza City - 18 May 2017 Share Inside their apartment, south of Gaza City, the children of the Abu Shaban family are studying for their end-of-year exams by candlelight. "We have no electricity when we teach our children," says Suniya, their mother. "This problem will affect their grades a . Learn More
Japan – Imperial Succession Law Still Prevails – Princess Mako to Lose Royal Status by Marrying a Commoner
A member of Japan's royal family, Princess Mako, is to surrender her royal status by marrying a commoner. The 25-year-old eldest granddaughter of Emperor Akihito will become engaged to law firm worker Kei Komuro, also 25, whom she met while studying together. Japan's imperial law requires a princess to leave the royal family after marrying a . Learn More
Afghanistan – Women Fear Loss of Shelters as Funding Dwindles
In this April 5, 2017 photo, victims of violence sew at a shelter operated by the Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan, or HAWCA, an NGO, in Kabul, Afghanistan. . Learn More
USA – One In Six Newly Married Americans Has a Spouse of a Different Race or Ethnicity
John B.Georges and his wife Mythily Kamath Georges married in 2015. Photo credit: John B. Georges BY CARMEN CUSIDO – May 18, 2017 In the nearly half century since the landmark Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia made it possible for couples of different races and ethnicities to marry, such unions have increased fivefold among . Learn More
Syria Peace Talks on De-Escalation Zones – Where Are the Women Negotiators? Where Are the Voices of Syria WOMEN?
KAZAKHSTAN – ASTANA PROCESS TO ESTABLISH DE-ESCALATION ZONES IN WAR-TORN SYRIA WHERE ARE WOMEN AT THE PEACE TABLE? WHERE ARE VOICES OF SYRIAN WOMEN IN THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS? . Learn More
Epidemic of Widowhood – Often a Vicious Cycle of Poverty & Discrimination
The Research There are an estimated 250 million in the developing world Over 115 million of these widows live in abject poverty With this level of pervasiveness, widowhood’s poverty entrapment is not just a problem, it is a problem of epidemic proportions. Indeed it is a global Epidemic of Widowhood. What is profound about the Epidemic . Learn More
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